My favorite thing about creating games - Progression report

it's certainly create clothing, characters and hairs :D But Character and hairs are created once, however about clothing, I can create a lot!

I love so much working with 3D, because every outfit I create can be used on other characters (with work to adapt it), or I could just edit it a bit, change texture or color, or import the base model to enhance it!

I wanted to create a new skirt, more good than what I did earlier. Here is the result!

I separated the belt buckle from the rest, because when I fit a clothing to a characters, the character's morph is applied to the clothing and deform everything.

I tried to make details bigger, I wish to stylize more my clothes, little by little. As It's 3D, I try to make the details bigger.
=> I tried a new theory to craft it:

I trace curves around the body, then convert it to mesh. The positive point:
it's quicker, and also it give a better controlled direction of the edges.

After that I add more edges, vertexes etc... everything that is symmetrical, and in the end I make the asymmetrical details.

Don't forget to make the UV maps!

After that I have to import it back into Daz3D and adapt it to the character (which is not that easy, particularly with big boobed characters, and I have to create morphs to fix the defaults when the character is posing)

This is the same skirt as the thumbnail with Miji, it is not used yet but I absolutely wanted to make a jean skirt version. I would greatly see it on Jasmina or Marina
I made a skirt length parameter.
The jean skirt is shorter here, but I can change however I want.

If you wonder, it looks like this haha, After making the UV maps of the model in Blender, I draw the texture on Clip studio paint. Textures, but also a bit of shading.

I've created many more outfits from zero that you haven't see yet!
These outfit are not event required but man... You can't imagine how much fun I have creating outfits.

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What is funny, is that what you're seeing here is not for the next update haha!!

I make it in advance for two reasons:

• I just like to create clothing in my free time XD (so it's not "free" time haha)
• When I write a scene, I like to have a visual of the character so I can imagine her talking, so I like to make their outfit so I can write the scenes with that visual.

Her outfit she has on the thumbnail image is only for January's update haha!

During these last months I've elaborated on my working process, and now I'm a bit desynchronized, many stuff are made in advance while other takes more time, but it's good like this because I've created routines of work.
Example of Routine: Every morning I take my caffeine, and every time I take my caffeine I write some dialogue lines. Today it's like not question of doing it, every morning = Caffein + writing lines. It's the first time I don't feel like I'm late on my work, and It became a lot more pleasant! (I also enhanced the process to make it more pleasant)

I bought a stream deck haha, it's not for streaming but you can see the characters. I programmed the buttons to write line/codes, so instead of writing repetitively the same code I just click on their face or action while I'm writing dialogue or coding ^^ I also added the arrow key after taping so the cursor is correctly placed when I click on the button bwahahaha!

I also have a page more for the code with stuff like choosing images animation or else, writing all of these was boring, I had to optimize it haha!

Miji can't wait for you to join the party!

From my current progression, as of today I would say I'll be on time for the release the 27th.